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Amazon sunsets Mechanical Turk, the original "Artificial Artificial Intelligence"

Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, a long-running crowdsourcing marketplace. The service, once vital for data labeling and human-in-the-loop AI tasks, will no longer accept new customers after July 30, 2026. This marks the end of an era for a platform that powered much of early AI development.

The Decoder·Jul 6, 2026

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